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The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth…
The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth the nature, conditions and excellencies of it, and how a sinner should do to enter into it, and the danger of refusing this covenant-relation : also the treasures of grace, blessings, comforts, promises and privileges that are comprised in the covenant of Gods free and rich mercy made in Jesus Christ with believers / by that faithful and reverend divine, Mr Obadiah Sedgwick ... ; perfected and intended for the press, therefore corrected and lately revised by himself, and published by his own manuscript ...The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth the nature, conditions and excellencies of it, and how a sinner should do to enter into it, and the danger of refusing this covenant-relation : also the treasures of grace, blessings, comforts, promises and priviledges that are comprized in the covenant of Gods free and rich mercy made in Jesus Christ with believers / by that faithful and reverend divine, Mr Obadiah Sedgwick ... ; perfected and intended for the press, therefore corrected and lately revised by himself, and published by his own manuscript ...
London: printed by Edward Mottershed for Adoniram Byfield, 1661
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2. That the New Covenant (under which we live) is a better Covenant then the Old Covenant under which the Fathers did live.
1. The Covenant of grace is a better Covenant then the Covenant of Works: This will appear if you do consider ten particulars.1
- 1The Covenant of grace is a better Covenant then that of works. It hath a better foundation.The Covenant of grace is a bet•er Covenant then that of works. It hath a better foundation.
1. The Covenant of Grace hath a better foundation than the Covenant of Works: The foundation of the Covenant of works was that power of will and righteousness wherewith Adam was created: he stood upon his own bottom, and was left unto his own sufficiency, like the Prodigal child, Luke 15. he had all his goods in his own hand. But the foundation of the Covenant of Grace is Jesus Christ: he is the sure foundation-stone laid in this building, Isa. 28. 16. and our salvation is laid upon one that is might, upon one who is able to keep, and to save to the utmost: Not our strength, but Christs strength; not our undertaking, but Christs undertaking; not our will, but Christs Mediatorship and Suretyship is the foundation of the Covenant of grace.